Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I don't believe what you said below. I'm a recent Leica user (1970's when the CL & R3 came out). I got more flak from using Alpa's throughout the 60's than I ever received from using Leica from the 70's until now. As a matter of fact, I've never been looked at differently because I use Leica. Over the years, I've attended numerous workshops (Art Wolfe, Pat Ohara, Freeman Patterson, Rod Planck) and I was always the only Leica there. I never got nutty questions. The extent of the questions were "how do you like your Leica?" or "does Leica make a lens in xxx focal length?" Always just camera comradery and interest. Jim At 12:19 PM 1/24/99 -0600, you wrote: >Don't know where in the hell you got that information....among >non-photographers, Leica is unknown (exc. oldsters)...among >photographers it is known as an EXTREMELY elitist product... >(the BEST or a useless status symbol depending on the person's >viewpoint)...but never "just another product"......you either >get praise or contempt for owning/using Leica from other >photographers, depending on the status of the bug up their ass >that day..... > >Walt >